Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture by Deborah Lutz

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Deborah Lutz

261 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Nineteenth-century Britons treasured objects of daily life that had once belonged to their dead. The love of these keepsakes, which included hair, teeth, and other remains, speaks of an intimacy with the body and death, a way of understanding abse...

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